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Our friends at The Patriot Depot just received a call from Rosemarie in Ball, Louisiana alerting Patriot Depot that her brother-in-law was stopped by small town Louisiana police and detained by the roadside for half an hour.

Britain is currently in the process of passing a bill -- which, given the way parliamentary systems work is guaranteed to be made into law -- "that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years' prison." Although the upper house of the legislature attempted to add a free speech amendment, the ironically-titled Justice Secretary took it out. Though this legislation is new, the practice of suppressing speech in Britain is most definitely not:

The Fifth Amendment has been demonized in our culture, as some excuse to protect the guilty.
Wrong.
It is there to protect the innocent from testifying against themselves. The police are not your friends; their job is to put people behind bars...guilty or not.

FOX News reports that the federal government is cracking down on bootleggers on the Navajo Indian reservation. It is illegal to consume or sell alcohol within the reservation's borders, but -- not surprisingly -- it happens anyway.
The best part of the clip comes when FOX shows an undercover video it received: "It shows officers slipping cash to those bootleggers, then getting beer or liquor in return." Oh, the horror, the horror!

If you've never played around with Wordle, it's "a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text."
One blogger made six word clouds of 9-12 speeches from Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Nixon, Bush 2, and Obama. It's hardly a representative sample of presidents, but it's interesting to see which words were favored over time.

My friend, not exactly a libertarian but not a socialist (pro-market, anti-war, anti-cop) — okay, pretty libertarian, actually — thinks that if the US government, for the last 40 years, had spent nothing on war or welfare or anything else, but retained the same tax schedules, it would have been able to fund the creation of a dragon.
Yes, a dragon.

Since we are principled conservatives, we can laugh at both Demorcrats and Republicans. And in this economy, laughing helps, enjoy!
Here's a teaser: Barack Obama sent the Queen of England an iPod.
Click here to read the article, post your favorite news feed item in the comment section.

The Onion has put out this video mocking the secretive nature with which the government steals our freedoms. Almost more interesting than the video itself, though, are some of the comments on this Youtube posting of it: a least a quarter of the comments are firmly convinced that it's quite real.